191 research outputs found
Ma-space/time
No full textMA: the natural distance between two or more things existing in a continuity" or "the space delineated by posts and screens (rooms) or the natural pause or interval between two or more phenomena occurring continuously. Thus the word MA does not describe the West's recognition of time and space as different serializations. Rather, in Japan, both time and space have been measured in terms of intervals. Originally, the ideogram for MA consisted of the pictorial sign for "moon" - not the present day "sun” - under the sign for "gate". This ideogram, depicts a delicate moment, when the moonlight streaming can be seen from the doorway. The aesthetics of the MA, translatable with the ambiguous terms of "break”, “between”, therefore indicates a portion of two-dimensional space, closed in the door, but also a portion of time, in which the moon appears, because, as noted by the same architect Arata Isozaki, "the space was perceived only in relation to the flow of time." The traditional Japanese concept of MA (literally space / time) is reflected in the Japanese culture, from building system to martial arts and the isometric representation of physical space, this provides a different way of reading the architecture and the landscape
AHFE 2021 Best Paper Award
No full textA growing trend in healthcare is the notion of Acuity-Adaptable care /Universal Care patient room that is compelling hospitals to abandon the traditional approach to care where patients are transferred from unit to unit in search of the proper level of care with negative effects on healthcare quality. This paper reviews key design elements that support the success of an Acuity-Adaptable care /Universal care patient room, in particular, focusing on design solutions that attempt to adapt the patient room to the pathology level through the position of the ‘life support system’; balancing technological complexities with the human dimension; improving the organization of the staff’ work through the decentralization nurse stations
Sustainable Environmental Communication Project: Eco-Friendly and Sensory Materials for Museums
No full textIn the context of large museum centers, numerous national and international methodological experiments show the need to consider, in wayfinding design, both the intangible issues of experience arising from perception and involvement (user-centered design), and social and environmental issues (environment-centered design). The aim of this research is to propose a tool for organizing integrated information on so-called smart materials that takes both perspectives into account. This study was performed by conducting a two-phase systematic literature and library review of materials. Specifically, 63 scientific articles—selected by keywords, publication date and content—and 7 national and international material libraries were investigated. The investigation highlighted how the sensory characteristics of wayfinding materials in museums are treated separately from the environmental characteristics and how the quality of the technical information of the materials filed in the material libraries could be improved. The result of the research concerns the structuring of a ‘standard sheet’ for the cataloguing of materials that integrates technical (sensory and environmental) information while also offering a contextualization of the material within wayfinding application cases in known museums. The proposed tool facilitates designers in the selection of materials to be adopted in the wayfinding project, offering information both on their ability to offer alternative communication channels in response to different users’ sense–perceptual functioning and on their quantitative environmental impact properties. This study conducted through the integration
of different multidisciplinary fields (technological approach to design, inclusive design, environmental psychology, material science, visual communication, environmental protection related to people’s well being) offers a significant contribution in the context of museum wayfinding design, providing stakeholders with practical tools to select materials that promote inclusion and sustainability
FLEXIBILITY IN HOUSING DESIGN: NEW STRATEGIES TO HINDER THE FUNCTIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL OBSOLESCENCE
No full textOne of the main problems of the house that in recent decades have intertwined reflections design and theorical, but generally of all technological systems, is the risk of becoming technically or functionally obsolete. This is partly due to the fact that interventions on housing construction, oriented themselves toward the Optimal Point logic Design (OPD), which is to achieve a single goal, living in the more traditional sense of the term, thinning out therefore all the capabilities that are not required to comply with those specific features. As a result, once removed excess potentialities to improve the main goal of the system, this results rigid towards new tasks. It is obvious, that in the building sector, the inability to handle the uncertainty of social and economic context, the changing needs of users and environmental, tends to make the system obsolete and to reduce its useful life.
If flexibility is the ability of a system to be easily modified and to respond to changes in the environment in a timely and convenient, then the flexibility can be considered the antidote to obsolescence, or the characteristicof the system that guarantees slippage over time.
The paper provides a critical assessment in the implementation of the requirement of flexibility starting on four lines of action in which it is possible to classify projects which throughout history, have integrated the flexibility in the design of house: Spatial Flexibility with constant surface, spatial Flexibility evolutionary, technological Flexibility relating to construction techniques, technological Flexibility concerning the plant maintainability. The research therefore proposes the project strategies, cross- cutting to these four-way directions, aimed at ensuring the survival over time of the building, thanks to the ability to implement several cycles of use of body building, confront the ability to reconfigure the internal structure and intervene in a simplified way on the technological system that governs the space
Connecting Cultures, strategie per il miglior uso della diversità
No full textIl saggio propone un approccio alternativo alla progettazione e localizzazione degli alloggi di emergenza per i rifugiati. A partire da esperienze passate che dimostrano come la diversità e la convivenza con altre culture è stata di impulso al cambiamento e allo sviluppo dei paesi che le hanno ospitate, si riflette su scelte localizzative che superino l’attuale soluzione di segregazione spaziale a favore di una diffusione territoriale. Tale approccio è applicato al caso studio di Tel Aviv, attraverso strategie che lavorano: a livello dell’edificio con l’addizione di involucri adattivi al patrimonio edilizio esistente, a livello dell’alloggio con spazi riconoscibili e personalizzabili e a livello urbano attraverso connessioni e reciproche opportunità tra i vari attori coinvolti
Strategie per la flessibilità spaziale e tecnologica
No full textLa progettazione dello spazio abitativo, si confronta oggi, con un con- testo estremamente incerto, dominato da rapidi processi di obsolescenza funzio- nale e tecnologica dei modelli abitativi ereditati. Il progetto dello spazio abitativo dovrebbe in primis occuparsi dell'ottimizzazione del progetto rispetto alla durata dei sub-sistemi e alla capacità di contrastare i processi di obsolescenza, relativi sia all'uso di materiali e componenti pensati per fallire dopo il breve periodo, sia di modelli spaziali rigidi incapaci di adattarsi alla variabilità nel tempo delle esigenze del nucleo familiare. La ricerca indaga la flessibilità come un requisito fondamen- tale da incorporare nel ciclo di vita dell'abitazione, attraverso strategie che inci- dono sia sulla forma che sull'apparato tecnologico che governa la sua struttura
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